This Week On developerWorks, May 10, 2013
CTO of App47 Andy Glover joins me to talk about how to design mobile applications to accommodate how we use them and how we shouldn't use them sometimes. You can dive deeper into Andy's topic in his...

Automating your mobile testing has two main advantages, increasing efficiency and cost savings. With automated testing, imagine you are able to conduct manual tests with simple scripts and run it repeatedly. You save human resources and money....

Depending on your application, you will have to assess whether testing on an emulated device or real device is the best option. Many times it is not either/or decision and the best choice is both . Emulators offer the less...

Why do development projects need automation?
People often have different opinions on where and how much automation shall be used in a software development cycle. However, almost all of us agree that there are two areas are most suitable for automation in...

I’m still thinking about what the right content should be for continuous testing. My previous blog was about thinking about what test content matters. But there’s also the consideration of how much content and considering avoiding waste of building...

The Agile Manifesto guiding principles says,
“Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” (emphasis mine)
So as teams have adopted agile development...

You may be hearing a lot about service virtualization lately and how it can help development organization overcome their testing challenges. Others may be wondering what the heck I am talking about when I when I use a phrase like service virtualization....

One
of the biggest challenges facing enterprise mobile app developers today
is designing and developing apps across multiple platforms. In 2011-12,
having a mobile strategy was imperative as the “consumerization of IT”
and “BYOD” trends pervaded. As a...

There
are many phases in the testing of any mobile app or website,
specifically when it comes to QA and development. Within development (or
pre-launch) there is Functional Testing, Usability Testing, and
Performance Testing, amongst others. And in...

For Desktop-based testing it’s a no-brainer: Use object-based scripting to maximize reuse across platforms/browsers. In
today’s mobile world it really isn’t that simple. There are many
different platforms, OS versions, form factors and carrier/manufacturer...

Mobile
developers continue to struggle to determine how and on which OS' to
develop their mobile projects on. As Michelle Fredette recently
explained in her article
that "Developing applications for multiple platforms is expensive,
primarily...

An established Maximo Asset Management 7.5 deployment can be copied into multiple environments. This allows you to duplicate environments for the purposes of development, testing, and prototyping. You can refine best practices for your product in development...

Traditionally,
to conduct real device mobile testing vendors shipped devices to
testers all over the world. A major roadblock is the upkeep of these
devices and maintaining them with the latest OS version or device model.
Shipping back and forth...

Time
and training of your resources for mobile has become a tremendous
problem for companies going mobile. While many testers are adept at QA,
they may not be experts in mobile. Because of device fragmentation the
demand for output becomes increasingly...

We
recently wrote about how the launch of the iPhone 5 and the iPad Mini,
each having a different form factor than their predecessors provides
unique challenges for a QA tester and developers who are trying to keep
up with the onslaught of new devices...

In a recent article posted
by Amol Ker of Netflix, he shared his struggles with performing device
testing of their mobile apps and websites. Since they operated on a
hybrid approach using HTML5 based coding. In the article Amol shared the
following...

Many years ago, we used to talk to our customers about the
need for automated testing. Test teams built
long lists of manual tests and struggled to finish their testing on time, not
to mention the difficulty they had with managing these tests. These...

In an article posted in 2012 in TechTarget, Kim-Mai Cutler had the chance to interview " Animoca ,
a Hong Kong mobile app developer that has seen more than 70 million
downloads, says it does quality assurance testing with about 400 Android
devices....

In
a recent article by Jonny Evans of CITE World, it would appear that
Apple is starting to dominate the enterprise marketplace. For years,
this was a market long-held by the king of enterprise devices -
BlackBerry. However since the iPhone and it's...

BYOD
has presented many challenges specifically to the enterprise.
Enterprises have a new challenge of managing employee devices that
contain external (personal) applications combined with an organizations
internal system. Many times an internal CRM...

Fragmentation
has always been a difficult issue, but new complexities have been
introduced with the proliferation of mobile devices. Many companies are
challenged with figuring out how to monetize mobile assets for all types
of devices in a...

Aricent
Group, a global innovation and technology services company, working
closely with Keynote, has developed a flexible, best-of-breed testing
environment for a Tier 1 mobile network operator in the UK. This
operator and other companies can now have...

The rise of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices for
business use has been a point of tension for some organizations in the
past, especially within professions where “desk presence” was
traditionally used to measure productivity. However,...